Reel



J. YENNETT AND E T. LONKERT.

REEL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20. 1920.

1,376,303. r Patented Apr. 26,1921.

a! ha UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

Application filed February 20, 1920. Serial No. 360,265.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN YENNETT and EDWARD T. LoNKERT, citizens of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Reels, of which the following 1s a specification.

This invention relates to reels upon which barbed wire is wound for shipment and use, the present application including matter originally shown, described and clalmed in an application filed by us June 14, 1919, Serial No. 304,315. The object of our present invention is to provide a reel wh ch may be produced at a low cost, which Wlll. effectually support the wire wound thereon, and which may be returned in knocked down form to the wire manufacturer for repeated use.

. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 1s a perspective view of the completed reel, and

Fig. 2 is a perspectlve view of one of the end plates.

The reel is composed of six oblong wire frames which are identical in construction, although the frames 9, which extend longitudinally of the reel and form the center thereof may be shorter than the frames 10 which form the ends of the reel. The wlre is bent to provide an oblong structure and its ends are twisted together, as at 11, so that they will be firmly joined and cannot be accidentally or easily separated. The frame will thus retain its identity and will effectually support the spool of wire. In the longitudinal sides of the frame, kinks or bends 12 are formed and when the frames are assembled by disposing two of them at right angles to each other, the klnks or bends will intersect or be adjacent each other, as shown in Fig. 1. By placlng two frames 10 together at right angles, as shown, and as just mentioned, the ends of the reel are produced and the body, center, or core of the reel is produced by engaging the ends of the frames 9 over the ends of the frames 10 extending in the same direction and sliding thesaid end frames 10 to the ends of the body or core frame. The kinks of the end frames will then engage the sides of the core frame so that relative movement and dislocation of the several frames will be avoided. Of course, if' desired, tie wires may be wrapped around the junctions of the several frames, but in ordinary usage such tie wires will not beneeded and they are, therefore, not illustrated.

In each end of the reel, we provide a crucrform cheek plate 13' which has its body portion 14 arranged to close the central space of the end frames and its arms 15 disposed one in each projecting portion of an end frame so that the wire wound on the reel will be effectually confined and the liability of th barbs being caught in the end frames is minimized. The body portion of the cheek plate is provided with a central circular opening 16 to engage over a trunnion Or otherfixed support and permit the reel to rotate freely as the wire is drawn therefrom. One arm of the cheek plate is somewhat elongated to provide a surface upon which the weight of the wire may be lnscribed and the extremity of said arm is turned slightly outward to facilitate the handling of the plate and also to prevent the wire, in winding on th reel, becoming entangled with the plate.

The kinks formed in the sides of the frames serve as guides or gages to aid in bringing the frames into the proper relative positions when-assembling the reel and also tend to counteract any inherent untwisting action by the ends of the wire between them. It is also to be noted that the kinks are disposed in the planes of the respective frames and thereby reinforce the frames against bending in other directions while, at the same time, they impart a slight longitudinal elasticity to the respective frames so that the core or body frames may yield sufficiently to permit the wound wire to readily move across the end frames when being unwound. When wire is wound on the reel, the end frames are held in position against the ends of the body or core frames by the pressure from the ends of the roll of wound wire. By twisting the ends of the frame strands about each other, we avoid separation of the ends so that the frames will not break under the strain imposed thereon. In ractice, we make the core frames of uni orm length but the end frames are longer or shorter accordingly as a larger or smaller reel is desired.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A reel consisting of crossed end frames, body frames havin their ends engaged over corresponding end frames, and cruciform cheek plates fit'ted in and held by the end frames.

2. A reel consistingof crossed end frames, body frames having their ends engaged over corresponding end frames, and cruciform cheek platesfitted in and held by the end frames, said cheek plates being provided with central circular openings.

3. A reelconsisting of crossed end frames, body frames having their ends engaged over corresponding end frames, and cruciform cheek plates fitted in and held by the end frames, onearm of each cheek plate being elongated and having its extremity turned outwardly.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signa-. tures. Y

JOHN YENNETT. L.s.] EDWARD T. LONKERT. [11.8.] Witnesses:

' J. Me PAINTER,

S. W. SMITH. 

